The Fan Zone is a UGC Challenge platform that asks fans to access, view, and share digital content on the public Bristol City, Bristol Bears, Bristol Flyers and Bristol Sport Foundation (BSF) apps. We grant you and other users the right to access to Fan Zone and its contents under the conditions defined herein.
Intellectual Property Rights
All content on Fan Zone, including content provided by you or any third parties, is protected by copyright, personal rights, registered designs, patents, trademarks, service marks, design rights, database rights, trade secrets, rights of confidence and other similar rights. All rights not expressly granted in these terms are reserved by Us.
By posting content to our Fan Zone you agree that your media, in the form of photos, videos or audio files, may be published to Bristol Sport/City/Bears/Flyers/Foundation websites and/or social media platforms, or those of any participating 3rd party sponsors. When sharing others’ content, you agree to at all times reference/tag the owner of the post wherever possible.
By responding to a Challenge on Fan Zone, you will be granting Bristol Sport/City/Bears/Flyers/BSF and any participating 3rd party sponsor a non-exclusive, royalty-free, world-wide, perpetual, transferable, irrevocable and fully sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, assign, translate, create derivatives work from, distribute and display the User Content (or any part of it) and its related content; and that we may include the User Content (or any part of it and its related content) into other works for any Purpose.
UGC Guidelines
Content uploaded to Fan Zone undergoes a moderation process before they are published to any public-facing Bristol Sport platforms – including the Bristol City/Bears/Flyers/BSF Fan Portals and Bristol City/Bears/Flyers/BSF apps. All content must follow the terms and conditions set forth below:
1. When obtaining and representing your media; do so truthfully, accurately and fairly.
2. Present content in a balanced manner and in contect. Do not neglect the facts, do not distort, exaggerate or misrepresent information.
3. You are not permitted to upload plagiarized media content.
4. Content must not mislead the audience. Multimedia content shall not misrepresent or mislead or be manipulated.
5. When presenting visuals on children, take ethical practices on media reporting into account.
6. A child shall not be photographed or identified without the consent of a legal guardian or of a similarly responsible adult and the child.
7. You are not permitted to publish sexually explicit material of any nature.
8. Do not discriminate or make denigratory references to people’s race, gender, sex, pregnancy, marital status, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, conscience, belief, culture, language and birth or another status, and not refer to such status in a prejudicial or pejorative context – and shall refer to the above only where it is strictly relevant to the matter, and if it is in the public interest; balance their right and duty to publish and comment on all matters of legitimate public interest against the obligation not to publish material that amounts to propaganda for war, incitement of imminent violence or hate speech – that is, advocacy of hatred that is based on race, ethnicity, gender or religion and that constitutes incitement to cause harm
9. When sharing, curating, citing content taken from the internet, it is important to make reference to your source – be it a screen capture, photo, post, video, meme and other visual and audio content.
10. When curating, citing content from the internet, you can only use 30% of that content, which must be credited.
11. You may not reproduce, modify, alter or otherwise exploit the contents to any other computer, server, website or other mediums for publication or distribution, unless you are sharing to social media platforms.
12. Any use of the contents on social media platforms shall, by best practice, tag the source of the contents, the photographer, blogger, etc, when possible.
You are further prohibited from
1 Using any Content to modify it towards an association with illegal products, content, services or materials; coverage of accidents, assaults, disaster or uproar.
2 Using Fan Zone or its contents in any unlawful, threatening, racist, libellous, defamatory, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, vulgar, obscene, profane, pornographic or otherwise objectionable way, or violate any applicable law and/or for the publication of, linking to, issue or display any material, that contain any virus, trojan horse or other harmful code or script; or
3 Encouraging conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any law.
While utmost care has been taken to ensure that the terms and conditions address all concerns of community building within Fan Zone, Bristol Sport still intends to further establish an ongoing process to refine and maintain these guidelines in the future, driven by information gathered as well as industry and participant feedback.
Termination of Account
Bristol Sport reserves the right to cancel the account of users who upload content in violation of the stated UGC guidelines. To report any UGC Community content that may be considered to have violated the Bristol Sport guidelines, please contact [email protected].
Scope of Application
These terms and conditions apply to Fan Zone and its content, including all photos, videos, audio, and GPS locations. By accessing Fan Zone or using any content, you agree to be bound by these terms. If you do not agree to these terms, you should not make use of Fan Zone or its content.
If you have any questions or comments concerning Fan Zone or its content, you may contact us at [email protected].
Indemnity
You agree to fully indemnify and hold Us, Our affiliates, officers, directors, shareholders, employees and agents harmless in respect of all liabilities, damages, claims, actions, expenses, demands or costs (including any legal fees in relation to such claim or damages) incurred by Us arising from, or in connection with, (i) Your use of Fan Zone or its contents outside the scope of these Terms, (ii) any breach or alleged breach by you of these Terms or (iii) your violation of any law or infringement of third party rights.
You acknowledge and agree that you access, post and use Fan Zone or its contents at your own risk on an “as is” and “as available” basis and that We are not liable for any errors or omissions in any Content, Service, any availability or delivery (including without limitation whether caused by interruption, deletion, delay in operation, transmission, communication line, errors, omissions or computer virus, trojan horses, or other harmful code or script), nor any damages related thereto.